Iron Horse Bicycle Classic

The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic is ready to return to Durango and Silverton this spring. The size of the event is still to be determined. Like so many events in 2020, the IHBC was forced to cancel...

The dirt called on a day when the asphalt typically rules the cycling world in Durango and Silverton. With the 49th edition of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic canceled because of the COVID-19...

A road ride from Durango to Silverton on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend is an annual rite of passage for many cyclists. Not this year. The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic canceled the 49th...

Once postponed and now canceled, the 49th edition of the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic will have to wait until 2021. In an email sent to thousands of registered participants at 6 a.m. Thursday, the...

Even in a time in which people have become numb to announcements of the cancellation or postponements of sporting events because of the new coronavirus pandemic, the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic had...

Memorial Day weekend in Durango is synonymous with the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. It’s the symbolic start of summer tourism season, as thousands of cyclists line up in a 47-mile road race from...

One hundred forty years. When the town of Durango was formed two miles south of Animas City in 1880 to serve the San Juan mining district, it would have been impossible for those settlers to...

Cycling again dominated the headlines in 2019 and filled The Durango Herald’s top sports stories of the year. Above all the others, and narrowly edging the feats of fellow pro cyclist Sepp Kuss, it...

The Iron Horse Bicycle Classic is back to a three-day format in 2020. Registration for the 49th IHBC is only a week away for the general public and will come a day earlier for locals who attend a...

If you want Ed Zink’s legacy of unwavering community service to continue, live it. That was the message to hundreds of people who attended a memorial service for the Durango native Monday at the...